Smile

September 16. Our battalion, plus tanks, is attacking the grain elevator The battalion is suffering heavy losses, The elevator is occupied not by men but by devils that no flames or bullets can destroy.

September 18. Fighting is going on inside the elevator, If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this then none of our soldiers will get back to Germany.

September 20. The battle for the elevator is still going on.

September 22. Russian resistance in the elevator has been broken. Our troops are advancing towards the Volga.

it’s later cited there was 40 dead Russians in the elevator

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

set in a Jewish village in Tsarist Russia, doesn’t look very authentic

a poor father is struggling to marry off his three daughters, when the matches come along he’s not excited about them

a poor tailor for his eldest daughter

a radical (revolutionist) for his second

a christian for his third

the revolutionist is the only character I liked as he takes part in the protests and gets his ass blasted to Siberia

"Are we really going to Lord Yagyū's house?"

"I'll have to think about that."

"Isn't that what you told the guard?"

"Yes. I intend to go, but it's not all that simple. He's a daimyō, you know."

"He must be awfully important. That's what I want to be when I grow up."

"Important?"

"Umm."

"You shouldn't aim so low."

"What do you mean?"

"Look at Mount Fuji."

"I'll never be like Mount Fuji."

"Instead of wanting to be like this or that, make yourself into a silent, immovable giant. That's what the mountain is. Don't waste your time trying to impress people. If you become the sort of man people can respect, they'll respect you, without your doing anything."

50 years of movies

I’ll be watching at least one movie from each year starting with 1970

en kärlekshistoria or A swedish love story (1970) a romance plot between two teenagers, things happen left and right with no explanation and I assume that's the lovers view of the adults and the world around them, every character smokes in every scene with the whole leather jacket bike gang vibe, thank god people don't consume cigarettes this much nowadays

Otto Frank's business premises, Prinsengracht 263 (in the middle), around 1947

where in August 4, 1944 the eight residents and two of their helpers are arrested

Hermann van Pels was, according to the testimony of Otto Frank, gassed to death in Auschwitz in October or November 1944, shortly before the gas chambers were dismantled.

Auguste van Pels was transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, from there to Buchenwald, then to Theresienstadt on April 9, 1945, and apparently to another concentration camp after that. It is certain that she did not survive, though the date of her death is unknown.

Peter van Pels was forced to take part in the January 16, 1945 “death march” from Auschwitz to Mauthausen (Austria), where he died on May 5, 1945, three days before the camp was liberated.

Fritz Pfeffer died on December 20, 1944, in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he had been transferred from either Buchenwald or Sachsenhausen.

Edith Frank died in Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 6, 1945, from hunger and exhaustion.

Margot and Anne Frank were transported from Auschwitz at the end of October and brought to Bergen Belsen, a concentration camp near Hannover (Germany). The typhus epidemic that broke out in the winter of 1944-1945, as a result of the horrendous hygenic conditions, killed thousands of prisoners, including Margot and, a few days later, Anne. She must have died in late February or early March. The bodies of both girls were probably dumped in Bergen-Belsen’s mass graves. The camp was liberated by British troops on April 12, 1945.

Otto Frank was the only one of the eight to survive the concentration camps.

they’re renaming the Stockholm globe Avicii Arena nice move from Sweden in honor for the late Avicii

his smile here is the best way to be remembered

warms my heart

contagious

gives me hope for humanity